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WILLIAM BAYLISS, OF YVOLVERHAMPTON, COUNTY OF STAFFORD, ENGLAND.

METAL FENCING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,877, dated June 9,1885.

Application filed October 4, 1884.

(No model.) Patented in England July 26, 1884, No. 10,638, and August 27, 1884, No. 11,688; in

Cape of Good Hope October 16, 1884, No. 11/542; in Natal October 513, 1884, No. 2/1885,- in Victoria November 11, 1884, N0. 3,8rl3; in South Australia November 17, 1834, No. 507, and in Queensland January 17, 1885, No. 7, page 205.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM BAYLISS, residing at Volverhampton, in the county of Stafford, England, and a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented certain Improvements in Metal Fencing, (for which I have been granted Letters Patent in Great Britain, my said patents being numbered, respectively,10,638 and 11,688,and bearing date, respectively, the 26th day of July and the 27th day of August, 1884,) of which the following is aspecification.

My invention refers, chiefly, to barbed-wire fencing;'but it is applicable also to plain-wire fencing.

My invention relates to the attachment of the fencing-wires to or in the standards or posts; and has for its object to provide a simple or inexpensive clip to hold the wire in place, being especially adapted to a standard having a feather on its front edge. Theinvention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the standard and clamp and the means for securing the latter in place, all as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and defined in the claims.

In the drawings which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a standard and earth-plate constructedaccording to my invention, apart of thestandard being broken away for convenience of illustration, and the lower portion of the standard being in vertical section in the plane indicated by line 1 1 in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section in the plane of liue2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the standard and clip, the fence-wire being in cross-section. Fig. 4; is a horizontal section on line 4 4 in Fig. 3, taken through the clip and standard. Fig. 5 illustrates a modification of the earth-plate.

The first part of my invention is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

A is a flat earth-plate set verticallyin the ground. This earth plate is provided with tongues or clips a a,which are formed by pressing or punching out that portion of the metal forming the said clips until the latter stand out in front of the face of the plate A substantially as represented in Fig. 2.

B is the standard, which has two lateral 5o flanges, b b, at its back edge, and two lesser lateral flanges or ribs, 0 c, at or near its front edge, these latter being preferably rounded in section, as shown. This standard is attached to the earth plate by passing the flangesb b at its rear edge behind the clips at a on the plate, the web of the standard passing between the free ends of the saidclips, all as clearlyshown in Fig. 2. The clips aathus form a keeperto receive thestandard andhold it firmly. \Vhen a standard is to be driven into a plate, Iprefer to open the clips a a somewhat more at their tops or upper edges than at their lower parts, so as to enable the standardto be inserted the more readily.

Earth-plates constructed in this manner may of course be slipped down on the standards, if desired, after such standards are set and the wires or other horizontal parts are in place. This will be apparent when it is observed that the attachment of the plate is to the flanged back edge of the standard, while the wires are secured to the front edge of the same.

The second part of my invention is illustrated in Figs. 1, 3, and 4.

The standard B, as shown, has a feather, d, on its front edge, and in this feather are formed the recesses or notches which receive the wires 6 or other horizontal parts of the fence. These recesses arebacked and strengthened by the ribs 0.

G is the clip,which is formed to embrace the feather d and ribs 0 of the standard, and has a pendent lip, f, which extends down in front of the recess in which wire 6 lies when the said 8 5' clip rests by its lower edge on said wire. At the lower end of lip f is a nose, 9, which is adapted to be clinched into a notch, h, formed in the feather d or edge of the standard, in order to hold the clip 0 firmly in place. This 0 clip 0 may be placed and fixed by slipping it down to place from the end of the standard, and, when the wire e is placed in the notch, slipping the clip down until it rests upon the wire, as shown in Fig. 3, after which the nose 9 5 may be clinched for further security.

The clip may, and usually does, fit the standard snugly and elastically, and in lieu of slipping it over the end of the post, it may be slipped on from the front edge of the standard, and then have its sides pinched together until they clamp the ribbed portion of a stand ard.

In order to avoid losing the clips when shipped with the standards, a sufficient numher for a standard may be slipped upon each standard, and the ends of the standard be provided with some suitable stop or obstruction to prevent the clips from slipping off. This is a mere convenience, and forms no part of my invention.

In Fig. 1 I have shown the clipsaa punched out from about the middle of the earth-plate A; but I may form a pair of these near both the upper and lower edges of the said plate, as shown in Fig. 5, in lieu of one pair at the middle only.

I am aware that earth-plates with round standards passed through loops formed in the plates have been proposed, and that it has been proposed to form a dovetail on a wooden post to fit a dovetail groove in a metal socket which projects above the ground. I am also aware that it has been proposed to form recesses in the edges of flanged posts to receive fencing-wires, and to provide such posts or standards with clips having noses to take over and retain the wires. These features I do not claim; but

What I do claim is 1. The combination, with a metal fencing standard, B, provided with lateral flanges l) b at its one edge and ribs 0 c ncarits other edge, of the earth-plate A, provided with clips aa, formed as described, and the clips 0, constructed to fit over the ribbed front edge of the post or standard and provided with a lip, f, to take over the fencing-wire,whereby the earth-plate may be placed on the standard and set in the earth after the fence is set up, as described.

2. The combination, with a metal fencingsta'ndard provided with ribs at or near its front edge, a recess to receive the fencing-wire,and a notch, h, of the clip 0, constructed substantially as described and provided with a nose, 9, adapted, when the clip is in place, to be clinched into said notch, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

W'ILLIAM BAYLISS.

Witnesses:

STEPHEN WATKINS, ROBERT M. LIsTER. 

